Eating Richard II.(study of William Shakespeare's historical plays)(Essay)

Shakespeare Studies | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

IN RICHARD II SHAKESPEARE is as unsystematic in his use of history as he is systematic in his use of poetic imagery and sustained metaphor. Students of the play have been efficient in developing critical vocabularies that express the latter fact and obscure the former. Madeline Doran noted in 1942 that Richard's character "is exhibited directly. He is a poet and he speaks poetically"; the play's images "tend to be direct or explicit, complete, correspondent, point by point to the idea symbolized, and separate from one another" (113). (1) The play's critical and theatrical ...

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